Thanks for your concern - Haiti/Dominican Republic

Many people have been asking us about Javier's family in the Dominican Republic. They are all fine - Praise God. They live about 160 miles from the epicenter, yet they have seen no damage at all. They did feel it, but it amazes me that the damage could be so severe just 160 miles from them. Javier's brother is a volunteer firefighter and they are planning to go help. He said that the problem is that they can not get much past the border because bridges have collapsed and they just can't get access by road very far. We are so thankful to be able to skype them often.

Javier does feel anxious to go help in some way, but he will wait until there is a clear need for him - maybe with rebuilding?

Let us pray for Haiti and especially the orphans - that they would be protected from all kinds of trafficking and that both the US and Haitian governments would cooperate to streamline their adoptions. I have read rumors about the US issuing emergency refugee visas for some of the orphans.